Concerns over school security topped the conversation at last Thursday’s Mathews County School Board town hall meeting, which was held in the Brooks Auditorium at Thomas Hunter Middle School.
About 15-20 people attended the approximately two-and-a-half hour meeting, with discussion centering on ensuring a safe environment for students to learn.
Daniel Schroeder of Cobbs Creek began his comments by saying that last year there was a knife made in the high school and a child was threatened to be stabbed with it, and this year there was a kindergartener who threatened to kill the whole class—and, he claimed, the sheriff was never made aware about either of these things.
“Last year, the sheriff pulled the SRO [School Resource Officer] out of the school system,” he said, and the school board has taken no action since then to bring the police officers back. “You had all summer to do something about it,” he said.
He pointed out that at the town hall meeting where he was speaking, the doors to ...